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The Physics of Life
January 15, 2025 arXiv
Exploring Information as a Distinctive Feature of Living Systems
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Earth’s Gold-Mining Machine
January 15, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Moon: a chunk ejected from Earth?
January 15, 2025 Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Researchers from Göttingen in Germany shed new light on the formation of the Moon and origin of water on Earth
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News Update/Commentary
Coyote genes may show urban evolution at work
January 15, 2025 Science Daily
A new study outlines the ways by which city life may be shaping the evolution of urban coyotes, the highly adaptable carnivores spotted in alleyways from Berkeley, Calif., to the Bronx, in New York.
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Ancient DNA reveals reproductive barrier despite shared Avar-period culture
January 15, 2025 Nature
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An Unmerry Hitchmas
January 15, 2025 First Things
Four prominent atheists -- physicist Lawrence Krauss, biologist Richard Dawkins, journalist Douglas Murray, and actor Stephen Fry -- took the stage to reminisce about Hitchens, discuss literature, and, of course, mock religion.
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Evolution vs. Religion?
January 15, 2025 YouTube
Two kinds of questions describe the relationship between evolution and religion. The first explores discrepancies, even contradictions, between the science of evolution and the beliefs of religion. The second examines how religion itself evolved.
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News Update/Commentary
Protein shapes can help untangle life's ancient history
January 15, 2025 Science Daily
A new way of merging genomic and structural data can help dive deep into evolutionary relationships
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DNA damage can last unrepaired for years
January 15, 2025 Wellcome Sanger Institute
In a paradigm shift in how we view mutations, researchers uncover forms of DNA damage in healthy cells that can persist unrepaired for years.
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The early universe’s ‘Little Red Dots’ are still a big mystery
January 15, 2025 Astronomy magazine
Found less than a billion years after the Big Bang, these massive objects are upending astronomers’ timeline for how early galaxies formed.
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Are ultra-processed foods changing the shape of our jaws?
January 14, 2025 The Guardian
Study has linked a soft and liquid diet to smaller jaw size in children, but others say evolution is more likely the cause
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Just Stop Oil Vandalizes Darwin's Grave at Westminster Abbey
January 14, 2025 Mind Matters
Reuters reported yesterday that climate activists associated with Just Stop Oil had defaced Charles Darwin’s grave at Westminster Abbey in London
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Do aliens exist?
January 14, 2025 The Conversation
We studied what scientists really think
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Brain Miniaturization in Some Very Small Insects
January 14, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
By Design
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Darwin Is Evolving
January 14, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Evolvability, non-selective adaptation, mechanics over genetics -- change is in the air
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Evil, Atonement, and Evidence Against God
January 14, 2025 YouTube
a retrospective of his views and arguments over his illustrious career
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ERVs, Pseudogenes, and Onions
January 14, 2025 YouTube
In 2012, the evolutionary “junk DNA” paradigm took a major hit when the ENCODE Project reported that over 80% of our DNA is biochemically functional. How did evolutionary biologists respond to the demise of one of their favorite arguments?
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Lessons from Australia’s rabbit plague
January 14, 2025 Creation Ministries International
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Cosmology and Creation
January 13, 2025 YouTube
How do physicists and philosophers who believe in God harmonize the discoveries of cosmology with the doctrine of creation? How does cosmology enhance or erode their belief in God? If God exists, must the universe have had a beginning?
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A new vision for how evolution works is long overdue
January 13, 2025 Nature
The idea that evolution is driven by an organism’s development -- not just the natural selection of its genes -- challenges a dearly held orthodoxy among evolutionary biologists.
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Genetic Breakthrough Reveals How Superbugs Outsmart Our Defenses
January 13, 2025 Sci Tech Daily
A groundbreaking study has unveiled how Staphylococcus aureus, a bacterium often found in humans, evolves and survives, offering promising leads for better infection management.
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News Update/Commentary
Polygamy is (not) for the birds
January 13, 2025 Science Daily
Researchers analyze how different mating practices shape evolution and survival
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Climate Change Causes Space Aliens
January 13, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
It’s past time to reconsider the presumptive authority of scientific consensus
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The End of the Machine Metaphor?
January 13, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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God and the Odds of ET
January 13, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Dark Matter and Intelligent Design
January 13, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
A Prediction
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Melting ice reveals millennia-old forest buried in the Rocky mountains
January 13, 2025 New Scientist
Trees dating back almost 6000 years have come to scientists' attention due to ice melting in the Rocky mountains, offering a “time capsule" into the past
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Is Science in Our Frame of Reality Inevitably Incomplete?
January 12, 2025 Mind Matters
It’s becoming increasingly obvious that human consciousness isn’t a material phenomenon like any other; it has one foot in time and another in eternity
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Why Do So Many Organic Chemicals Exist in the Absence of Life?
January 12, 2025 Mind Matters
How simple chemistry led to complex living organisms stands among the great unsolved mysteries of science. The recent studies of asteroid and comet material add to the evidence that the first steps of the assembly process happen very readily.
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Are Churches Becoming Victims of Stockholm Syndrome?
January 12, 2025 Mind Matters
In a new book, John West looks at the problem of evangelical church leaders adopting the belief systems of their opponents, perhaps to stay safe
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Scientists Think Melting Ice Sheets May be Stoking Earth's Volcanic Eruptions
January 12, 2025 The Weather Channel
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Did Animals Suffer in Evolution?
January 11, 2025 YouTube
Sentient suffering is a hard problem for theists to solve. ... what about natural evil, such as animals being killed or eaten alive continuously during the process of evolution? Shouldn’t egregious and relentless animal suffering count against God?
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Is There a Fifth Force of Nature?
January 11, 2025 Universe Today
Could a new, fifth force of nature provide some answers to our biggest questions about dark matter and dark energy? We’re working on it.
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Censorship in the Sciences: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
January 10, 2025 University of Southern California
Censorship in sciences entails suppression of the investigation or dissemination of scientific research, on the grounds that such knowledge would be dangerous, undesirable, or contrary to moral, political, or religious beliefs, attitudes or values
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Are Science & Religion at War?
January 10, 2025 YouTube
What is it about science and theology that grips people so emotionally, ... Each is fighting for its predominance, if not for its life: religion from being marginalized, science from being politically contained.
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Tour Destroys Origin of Life Myths with Hard Science
January 10, 2025 YouTube
a synthetic organic chemist, critiques origin-of-life theories as scientifically flawed and improbable, highlighting unscientific claims by the researchers. Tour challenges the scientific community to address these issues
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Scientists Discover Dinosaur Face That Still Has Its Skin
January 10, 2025 MSN
This find provides an unprecedented look into the appearance and biology of these ancient creatures.
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Reality goes beyond physics
January 10, 2025 Institute of Art and Ideas
Why physics will never explain everything
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‘The Majoron' -- a bizarre particle that's its own opposite -- could explain the biggest mysteries of the universe
January 10, 2025 Live Science
There's a significant imbalance between matter and antimatter in our universe, but a strange particle called “the Majoron" could finally explain it, an audacious new study suggests.
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The Displacement Fallacy: Evolution’s Shell Game
January 10, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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How Darwinism Dodges the Iceberg
January 10, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Preservation and early evolution of scalidophoran ventral nerve cord
January 10, 2025 Science Advances, v.11, n.2
Ecdysozoan worms (Nematoida + Scalidophora) are typified by disparate grades of neural organization reflecting a complex evolutionary history.
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News Update/Commentary
New fossil discovery sheds light on the early evolution of animal nervous systems
January 10, 2025 Science Daily
Groundbreaking research uncovers the origins of the ventral nerve cord in early moulting animals
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Scientists Drill 1.7 Miles Into Antarctic Ice, Revealing 1.2 Million Years of Climate History
January 10, 2025 Smithsonian Magazine
Researchers say a collected sample is the longest continuous record of Earth’s past climate from an ice core
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Dawkins's Gender Dilemma
January 9, 2025 First Things
On December 30, Richard Dawkins resigned from the honorary board of the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) after it retracted an article arguing that gender is based on biology.
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The Jaw Drops an Evolutionary Explanation
January 9, 2025 Institute for Creation Research
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Consciousness, Gödel, and the incompleteness of science
January 9, 2025 Institute of Art and Ideas
A self-referential problem
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Failure to replicate
January 9, 2025 Science, v.387, n.6730, p.145
A historian confronts the complicated origins and uncertain future of priming research
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We are all mosaics
January 9, 2025 knowable magazine
Picture your body: It’s a collection of cells carrying thousands of genetic mistakes accrued over a lifetime -- many harmless, some bad, and at least a few that may be good for you.
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Stem Cell study points to the evolutionary origin of the mammalian outer ear
January 9, 2025 University of Southern California
An earful of gill